Charles Fadel is Global Lead, Education at Cisco Systems, and the Cisco board member at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, of which Cisco was a founding member. He has consulted with a wide variety of education ministries/boards including Massachusetts, France, Chile, Brazil, Tunisia, and the Dominican Republic, and has worked on education projects in more than thirty countries and states. Charles has authored articles in publications such as Technology Learning, New Media Consortium, eSchool News, Education Week, University Business and EETimes. He has presented at numerous education conferences, including the Consortium for School Networking (COSN), the National School Boards Association (NSBA), the National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI), and the Masie Center’s learning conferences. He is presently advising two non-profit organizations, and serves with several industry organizations including the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), and two committees of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Charles has recently served on the Massachusetts Governor’s Readiness Project as well as its 21st Century Skills task force. Charles has been awarded five patents on video, content, and communication technologies. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and a Master of Business Administration in International Marketing.

Charles Fadel is participating in the Gearing up for the future: skills and knowledge under the microscope session.